Or at least to me, right now, he sounds fresher than anyone else out.

A photo posted by TOP SHOTTA MOBILE.ALABAMA (@omb_peezy) on Jan 30, 2017 at 2:45pm PST

OMB Peezy is from Mobile, Alabama, a port town on the Gulf Coast that celebrated Carnival before any other place in the United States and got hit badly by Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. These days Peezy, 20, lives in Sacramento, where he moved recently with his family, and where folks are already rocking with him.

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Like a handful of greatrap writers have already pointed out, Peezy’s new songs mix Louisiana singsong with Detroit reality raps and thicc Bay Area slap. “Lay Down” is pristinely vindictive. And like Tee Grizzley’s “First Day Out” before it, “When I Was Down” morphs from scattered piano to full mob about a minute in. They’re not playing this on the radio in California yet, but they could.